{"id":2494,"date":"2009-11-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:21:56","slug":"christmas-letters-jack-layton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Letters: Jack Layton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/christmas-letters-stephen-harper.html\">Harper <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/christmas-letters-michael-ignatief.html\">Ignatieff&#8217;s <\/a>Christmas letters, we move on today to Jack Layton&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Dear working families,<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a great year for progressives across North America, with Barack Obama entering the White House, and the NDP winning the New Westminster-Coquitlam by election. All together now \u2013 <em>Yes We Can! Yes We Can<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Sw6kUeeInlI\/AAAAAAAABaM\/712Y7w3Nrm8\/s1600\/layton+stampede.jpg\"><img style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 179px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408440874202340946\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Sw6kUeeInlI\/AAAAAAAABaM\/712Y7w3Nrm8\/s200\/layton+stampede.jpg\" \/><\/a>The year started with Michael Ignatieff showing a lack of conviction and principle, propping up the Harper Conservatives and their pro-bank, pro-oil, anti-kitchen table agenda. Luckily Canada\u2019s New Democrats were there to oppose both Stephen Harper and ATM fees.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the fall, when Michael Ignatieff tried to plunge the country into an unwanted election, Canada\u2019s NDP were there to <em>support<\/em> the Conservatives, in order to get real results for people.<\/p>\n<p>People often come up to me and say \u201cJack, what do you do when you\u2019re not getting results for people or offering hope to Canadians?\u201d. After signing an autograph for them, I usually reply \u201c<em>thinking <\/em>about getting results for people\u201d. Because that\u2019s really what it\u2019s all about. That, and kitchen table issues.<\/p>\n<p>Live long and prosper,<\/p>\n<p>Jack<\/p>\n<p>PS. Ed Broadbent<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a look at Harper and Ignatieff&#8217;s Christmas letters, we move on today to Jack Layton&#8217;s. Dear working families, It\u2019s been a great year for progressives across North America, with Barack Obama entering the White House, and the NDP winning the New Westminster-Coquitlam by election. All together now \u2013 Yes We Can! Yes We Can! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[1099,1021],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3493,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}